ICLR 2019 | Synced

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ICLR 2019 | MILA, Microsoft, and MIT Share Best Paper Honours

The Seventh International Conference on Learning Representations (ICLR) kicked off today. One of the world’s major machine learning conferences, ICLR this year received 1591 main conference paper submissions — up 60 percent over last year — and accepted 24 for oral presentations and 476 as poster presentations.

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Big Announcements at TensorFlow Dev Summit; Google’s Open Data Efforts

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ICLR 2019 | ‘Fast as Adam & Good as SGD’— New Optimizer Has Both

A paper recently accepted for ICLR 2019 challenges this with a novel optimizer — AdaBound — that authors say can train machine learning models “as fast as Adam and as good as SGD.” Basically, AdaBound is an Adam variant that employs dynamic bounds on learning rates to achieve a gradual and smooth transition to SGD.